Winning three of four primaries, Hillary Clinton declared victory. Having tried to scare us with a red phone she now tries to dazzle us with a red dress.

As Michael Tackett notes.

Before the critical primaries in Ohio and Texas on Tuesday, her campaign had vowed to throw the “kitchen sink” at Obama to derail the momentum that had led to wins in 11 straight contests.

She honored that vow. It paid off in Ohio, where she won a clear victory but probably not a huge number of additional delegates. It also paid off in Texas, where she won narrowly in the popular vote.

Her strategy was built on a foundation of contradiction.

Clinton opposed the trade agreement that was considered a signature achievement of her husband’s presidency.

She shed her serious side and mugged on “Saturday Night Live” and “The Daily Show” to change her image.

After accusing Obama of plagiarizing speeches, she used an ad strikingly similar to one Walter Mondale ran in 1984 about a dreaded late-night phone call.

Her campaign invoked Obama’s association with developer Antoin “Tony” Rezko, a man also in possession of his own grip-and-grin photo with then-First Lady Hillary and President Bill Clinton.

And, in an interview on “60 Minutes,” she even seemed to hedge on the question of whether she believed Obama might be a Muslim.

She also built her strategy on a platform of clarity. She focused on national security and sowed doubt about Obama. And she focused on trade, aided by a rare public mistake by the Obama campaign, the revelation that his economic adviser might have signaled to Canada that Obama’s criticism of the North American Free Trade Agreement was “political positioning.”

And she abandoned some of her self-imposed restraint. Her risk was rewarded.

All of the state primary results are here.